We will on Wednesday eh! ;-)
Ok, cheers.
All the best ..
T i m
p.s. I've been on the PC a bit again today and when I have the eye starts to water / sting (slightly). I've just gone out to collect the daughter ('Daddy Cab' on call 24/7 no cost (own family only)) and it was fine. Ok, still not as clear as my right eye but as good as it has been for a while?
Go to an optician, they will do the tests and tell you if there is=20 anything more serious, costs about =C2=A320 probably won't have to wait m= ore=20 than half-hour most times of day. I had a problem with my left eye two years ago, looked as if I was=20 seeing everything through a window in a train shed that hadn't been=20 cleaned for years. Worried about it for two days then went to=20 Specsavers, they looked, tested, looked worried, wrote a note and sent=20 me off to Moorfields. Much waiting, and various people repeating the=20 same questions and tests: detached retina, side effect of the op to fix=20 that was another op for a cataract. So I now have one good eye and the=20 other which is just ok for distance and useless for reading.
Go to optician now.
--=20 djc
Saw consultant last week and it's shrunk a bit. After they sewed a radioactive disc to the back of my eyeball :-(
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Going Wednesday, earliest available appointment?
As of right now my left eye doesn't hurt at all, and was ok all last night, still going to the optician though!
All the best ..
T i m
;-(
All the best ..
T i m
Red on white only works well when the red is a good, solid colour, which may not be the case with marker pens.
Red-green colour blindness is far more common in males than in females. However, she can request a test from an optician, or visit the optics section of the Science Museum, which had the test cards on display last time I looked.
Colin Bignell
Two of the possible age-related problems that you can get.
As you found, unusually heavy floaters, particularly if accompanied by coloured flashes, need immediate attention. They are flagged as top priority on the NHS list of eye problems and are supposed to be seen within 24 hours of referral to hospital. When I had that, I was being examined by the hospital specialist one day and was on the operating table the next, which is slightly disconcerting when you are dealing with the NHS. Fortunately, I only had a small tear in the retina, which was successfully repaired with cryosurgery, so the only side effect I have is a small shadow on the extreme edge of my vision.
Colin Bignell
Indeed. When I was IT Training I would only use the red pen for any major stuff when I ran out blue / black.
What, a specific colour blindness test Colin, as mentioned she's only just had 'her eye tested' at the opticians and I hope mentioned this issue to them then (but may not have).
Oh, a day out and an eye test, cool! ;-)
All the best ..
T i m
=============================== It would depend on what was diagnosed. I wouldn't be too happy with a remote diagnosis for an eye problem unless it was a very common and obvious complaint.
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While Specsavers do some very good standard eye tests, I suspect they don't invest in all the less common gear that an independent ophthalmic optician has to hand and I am sure they won't do a test you don't ask for.
My eyesight is so bad that I can hardly see the chart without my glasses, much less read anything on it. As a result, when I applied for a pilot's licence, the CAA insisted that I have a comprehensive eyesight test carried out by an ophthalmic optician. It took the best part of a couple of hours, the report ran to several pages and it was one of the few eye tests I have ever had to pay for. I got the impression he rather enjoyed being able to do more than the usual eyesight test and it did include colour blindness.
Colin Bignell
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Which less common gear is that? Which tests do you know you need that the optician doesn't give you? There is a set of necessary equipment to do eye testing which all opticians use/need. Then there is high end equipment that indies cannot justify the expense of and is more likely to be found in a Specsavers.
FWIW I make my living out of independent opticians and would normally welcome any opportunity to bash Specsavers.
Colour blindness (which is very rare in females) is quite easy to test for - there are even several on line tests you can take which are not perfect as the colour rendering of monitors differ but they are not bad.
Specsavers gave me a colour blindness test the first time I went. I thought I was doing quite well as I could read all the numbers, and read multiple numbers on some cards. Apparently, no one is supposed to be able to do that whether colour blind or not, so he decided I wasn't colour blind.
I have no idea what the equipment is called and it was too long ago for me to recall all the tests that the optician did to satisfy the CAA. However, some of the equipment seemed to be little used and I would simply be surprised if an accountancy led business would think it worth while keeping in a cupboard.
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Most of the stuff he used looked more like it was made up in a back shed.
Colin Bignell
This wasn't age related, more the result of a poke in the eye a few days earlier. I was quick service, Specsavers in late afternoon, Morefields an hour later, (I live a mile away) op immediate admission and op scheduled next day (then delayed a day as bumped down the list by more urgent cases). Not a minor repair a vitrectomy: a week of keeping my head down to keep the gas bubble in the right place. Cataract op six months later was much, much less trouble, in and out in a morning.
Since the cataract op my distance vision is actually better, I can drive without glasses, which I have never done before in 35 years of driving.
nightjar > Which less common gear is that?
The last one I went to (an independent) seemed to have much bigger array of kit, and more tests to do that I have ever previously experienced. There was a machine for assessing peripheral vision (You stared into a Dr.Who style conical tube, while it gave brief flashes of different colours around the periphery of each eyes FOV), and another for digitising the shape of the front of the eye, building a 3D map of the surface. (apparently my eyes are quite bumpy - probably attributable to rubbing them too much!)
Thanks for that, I might get her to have a Google about.
Thanks also to all who have reasoned to this extra bit.
All the best ..
T i m
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My independent has the kit to do diabetic retinopathies which specsavers can't do. There are only a few opticians authorised to do the job in most towns.
The optician said her shelf glasses were making her squint through the better eye. He even took the time to show her what things looked like (both close and distant) wearing no glasses, her shelf glasses and prescription glasses.
There is still no subsitute for an optician (when it come to eyesight) as not many people who wear glasses need two identical corrections needed in both eyes.
Cheers
Adam
Fair enough, I concede on the specialist diabetic stuff. SS don't want to get into that as the tests take too long and you aren't as likely to be having a test because you want new specs but rather a check up. There's no money in that for them.
In the SS I used to work in we were encouraged to ask questions about history before booking the appointment then offer appts far in the future claiming to be booked up to put them off in the hope they would go somewhere else.
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